RE: Anti-Abuse Initiative Trial Period Overview
I think the idea behind the anti-abuse category is mostly fine, but to me it doesn't make sense that it's an entirely separate category of Utopian.
Utopian is about incentivising contributions to all open source projects while the anti-abuse category is limited to just one, the Steem blockchain. On top of that you also have a centralised whitelist so only a limited amount of people, handpicked by yourself and others, are actually allowed to contribute to the category (I also disagree with your idea that "to know what abuse is one must be active in abuse fighting" - abuse like phishing for example isn't some foreign concept for people who aren't active in abuse fighting nor is it limited to the Steem blockchain).
I can write more about my thoughts, but I was just actually just wondering why it wasn't made part of the blog category in the first place since it seems, to me at least, that most anti-abuse posts are exactly that.
Well, blog or not is something the higherups at @utopian-io need to figure out.
The initiative seems limited in part due to immaturity of other platforms. Some abuse fighters spend time on other platforms such as @onosocial, @scorum, @whaleshares. There have not been much discussion because of the pilot nature of the initiative.
I do share similar sentiments about the whitelist.
As for open source projects in anti-abuse initiatives, there are some I know of. One of such is the @steemflagrewards bot. A simple utility would be an issuer of SMT using it as means to mitigate abuse within that token's sphere. This would be done through rewards to community moderation.
Could that have utilities in other crypto social platforms? It's not impossible.
I want to add that the project seeks to educate others about what abuse looks like in a given setting. It's one thing to know what phishing is versus what it looks like on the Steem Blockchain, etc. The same applies to other types of abuse. Add in other similar blockchains in the mix and we would have much more to talk about.
I've wanted to say a similar thing before. An anti-abuse initiative could be extended though, towards all open source, or even to preventing abuse of issues and pull requests on open source repos.
Merging with blog category is another idea that work work though.